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Abyssal Road Trip - 224 - No matter what

Amdirlain’s PoV - Culerzic

Torm remained silent until the stairs descended another fifty metres from the corridor. “How much further are you looking to descend?”

“If I didn’t mess up the conversion, the plan...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 223 - Dig down

Amdirlain’s PoV - Culerzic

While Amdirlain sensed no impatience, the others’ presence prompted her to hold Isa out at arm’s length. “But we’re good now, right?”

“Only if you’re okay,” replied Isa, wip...

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Hell's Songbird - 10

Ilya’s silvery song shivers with awful notes when we reappear above the next tower, and her rage erupts. A piercing hurricane slices down the staircase before dust clouds spray from every opening, carrying bone and shattered metal. The building ...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 222 - Moments

Amdirlain’s PoV - Culerzic

With her hand pressed against the wall beneath the first archway, Amdirlain paused and glanced at Torm. “This will take a little while. Did my arrival interrupt anything urgent?”

“I w...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 221 - Reunion

Amdirlain’s PoV - Culerzic

When Amdirlain appeared on the plateau’s lip, she was under an angry molten sky, unchanged from the last time she'd seen it. Flames formed from mottled combinations; dark, angry reds and bitter...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 220 - My way

Amdirlain’s PoV - Maze

Time Sense prompted Amdirlain to end her latest session, and she almost teleported to her next target out of habit. A quick check confirmed Ascetic Triumvirate had reached 100 last practice session, ...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 219 - Never hold back

Amdirlain’s PoV - Maze

Even in the Maze, five months laying motionless had coated her with dust, and while Teleport had left the caked layer behind, the sensation lingered on her skin. Stretched out in the pool, Amdirlain ...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 218 - Better off

Amdirlain’s PoV - Maze

While her body wasn’t a perfect replica of Mortal flesh, it certainly had hunger, thirst, and fatigue down perfectly. It was odd after going so long without needing rest to depend on Psi techniques...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 217 - Nowhere to go

Amdirlain’s PoV - Maze

“We’ve been at this for weeks; how have you continued to contain that rage?”

Athena rose and stretched before making her way to the water basin. That her thoughts were now clearly audible...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 216 - Everybody's dead inside

Amdirlain’s PoV - Maze

When Amdirlain teleported back to Athena’s cell, she found the olive tree had regrown. Athena was already awake and pacing out the chamber’s walls, but Amdirlain recovered her dress before she pu...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 215 - Out of sight

Amdirlain’s PoV - Maze

Without the vines hampering her, Amdirlain pushed Ki Movement and distributed keys far quicker than she’d expected. Exploring her way through a new area of foul spirits, she spent a few days locati...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 214 - The seed

Amdirlain’s PoV - Maze

With the thorns retracted, recovery hadn’t taken long, and Amdirlain opened her eyes to a spotless expanse of grass beside the pool. Rocked by body blows of pain and heartache from Orhêthurin’s ...

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Abyss Road Trip - 213 - Same damn life

Amdirlain’s PoV - Maze

When the double chime sounded, Amdirlain returned to her chamber, carrying the pouch of keys Rasha had handed her. Though she raced along with reckless speed, the vines held back from breaching flesh...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 212 - Won't stand down

Amdirlain’s PoV - Maze

The phoenix’s wings flared through her and Amdirlain drifted across a darkened landscape focused on the shadow beneath the meridians. She’d spent days cycling to repair the gap left by the vines,...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 211 - Emperor's New Clothes

Amdirlain’s PoV - Maze

She’d spent weeks exploring regions where the energy within felt promising. Now, all she had left of her accumulated keys was a sole key that she’d left laying on her folded dress.

The Ki r...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 210 - Hope is my prison

Amdirlain’s PoV - Maze

As a chime’s impact rang out, Amdirlain again found herself on the pool’s edge within her space. Stepping into the water, Amdirlain quickly washed off the blood trails that crisscrossed her body....

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Abyssal Road Trip - 209 - Ready for combat

Amdirlain’s PoV - Maze

With the killing of nearby entities, she’d quickly provoked the guardians’ reappearance. The burning pain from the memories echoed within the vines and spurred her on. A punch shattered the first...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 208 - Something in the way

Amdirlain's PoV - Maze

Her skin glowed golden with the energy circulating through the phoenix pattern. As the feathers flared upwards, Amdirlain blazed past the Guardian and unleashed a flying sidekick. Precisely targeted ag...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 207 - Catch on fire

Minerva’s PoV - Nova Roma

The Temple’s side balcony had once provided a view of buildings sheathed in polished white stone that ran to the fortified harbour entrance. Yet ‌it had been a sight that had hidden a decaying...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 206 - Maze

Amdirlain’s PoV - Maze

“Amdirlain, how were you reborn as my baby?”

Ebusuku’s voice snapped Amdirlain awake from the exhausted slumber that had swamped her after the corridor, but it took her a few moments to p...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 205 - My mother told me

Ebusuku’s PoV - Laurelin

“Ebusuku.”

Farhad’s call came from the baby’s room I’d sorted out before Gailneth’s birth. Without thinking, I teleported to the room, hoping nothing had gone wrong in the diaper ...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 204 - Music to my ears

Livia’s PoV - Judge Po’s waiting area

Time is hard to measure here, with no shifting light and no apparent need to breathe. Those surrounding me don’t even blink, cough, or shift their weight, just staring off into the...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 203 - Into the darkest desire [fade out version]

Epochē - PoV - Kingdom of Darius - Northern reaches

The sense of her magic shattering caused Epochē to halt with the dagger just breaking the surface of Hades’ skin. Despite the trickle of golden ichor spreading across h...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 203 - Into the darkest desires [NSFW][TW]

Epochē - PoV - Kingdom of Darius - Northern reaches

The sense of her magic shattering caused Epochē to halt with the dagger just breaking the surface of Hades’ skin. Despite the trickle of golden ichor spreading across h...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 202 - Ain't it a drag

Torm’s PoV - Eyrarháls - Evening Third Day

He doesn’t say a word when he enters the study; he simply lets the door settle behind him. Lord Týr’s presence had been apparent when he entered the building, but his purpos...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 201 - Lucky

Liranë’s PoV - Eyrarháls - Morning Third Day

The meeting when the others awake is simple and to the point: killing Raivo.

Leaving them to it, I continued to work at the traces I’d located the night before. Mental...

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Chapter 201 wanted to be difficult over the weekend and had me re-write three times.

While I eventually figured out why I didn't like it, cost me a lot of time to get it to the point of being mostly roughed out. Had tried to skip some prepar...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 200 - Sleeping in the cold below

Livia’s PoV

Blackness surges only a moment behind a wave of pain, and I can only blink at what’s suddenly before me. A corridor stretched onwards, with endless rows of people standing in lines on dull grey stone squares....

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Abyssal Road Trip - 199 - Bitter Harvest

Epochē - Crete – Early afternoon Second Day

When the one-sided slaughter ended, Epochē reappeared, and her ledger snapped shut; the noise drowning out the cursing women. Ignoring the prisoners pinned to the chamber’s s...

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Chapter 199 - Editing

Chapter 200 - Writing

Work has been messy this weekend so not got as much time to write as I normally do

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